Thou Shalt Not:
1-Enjoy wearing clothes or eating food developed by another culture because you’ll be guilty of cultural appropriation.
2-Oppose abortion, because if you do you really don’t care about women’s health.
3-Question any “settled science” re climate change or coronavirus orthodoxy because you will be spreading misinformation.
4-Express your ideas in public forums, i.e., freedom of speech, for you might use a microaggression and make someone uncomfortable, so you will be canceled.
5-Express moral convictions regarding LGBTQ+ because this makes you a bigot.
6-Be patriotic, for this is white supremacy.
7-Consider it straightforward that men who identify as women should not participate in women’s sports, for this is discriminatory, at least toward women but apparently women don’t matter.
8-Argue critical race theory, intersectionality, and “anti-racism” are actually racist, directly counter to the tenets of Martin Luther King, Jr’s Civil Rights Movement, and you’ll be dismissed as someone caught in your own white fragility.
9-Favor border security and question the wisdom of open borders, because this makes you racist.
10-Own a gun, for this demonstrates you clearly don’t care about gun violence.
11-Disagree with, criticize, or even question another person’s behavior or attitudes because then you will be a hater.
12-Identify as an Evangelical, for this means you are a racist deplorable who endorsed everything former Pres Trump said or did, even if you didn’t vote for him.
13-Support law enforcement, for this means you are supremacist and racist.
14-Expect teachers to teach for this is common sense, something no longer endorsed by teachers’ unions.
15-Point out that every cell in the female body possesses XX chromosomes and every cell in the male body is comprised of XY chromosomes and no gender fluidity or sex change efforts will ever change this, which means that you are a hater who does not care about people struggling with gender dysphoria.
16-Note the threat to religious liberty written into the proposed Equality Act, for this makes you intolerant and prejudiced.
17-Point out the wildly anti-family, anti-Christianity, anti-American and racist values of the organization Black Lives Matter because this means ispso facto you support racism, bigotry, and discrimination.
18-Eat meat or other animal products because this is offensive to the animals.
19-Speak about virtually anything for fear of political correctness missteps.
20-Be assertive or express middle class bourgeois values for this is too much whiteness.
21-Expect media news programs to present developments without partisan or ideological messaging, encouraging citizens to decide for themselves, because this demonstrates you are hopelessly naïve.
22-Say you believe the U.S.A. was founded upon principles of liberty in 1776 not slavery in 1619, or say you believe American culture should be “color blind,” for you are demonstrating your white privilege.
23-Refer to your favorite animal as a pet for this is supremacist language.
24-Oppose the idea college debts should be forgiven because this destroys accountability and disillusions those who paid their debts, for this demonstrates you are privileged and insensitive.
25-Note the smug moral superiority of cancel culture and you’ll be considered a retrograde fly-over person.
26-Ask about a political appointee’s credentials, who is being celebrated for little more than his or her demography, and you’ll be noted as sexist or racist.
Woke-ism is about power created through victimhood. It can only perpetuate itself by continually identifying oppressors and newly perceived affronts, starting with language. Indeed, controlling the definition of words or inventing new vocabularies is one way to control the debate.
So, to demonstrate their bonafides, the newly woke or woke activists now continuously and endlessly seek out new social activities about which to be offended. Celebrities and corporations in utter fear of being labeled “racist” or some other epithet suggesting they are not “with it,” rush to virtue signal their level of “offended-ness” and their newly declared woke status. In their rush to ride the wave, public institutions of learning embrace new “anti-racist” curricula and policies that condemn them to states of paralysis where everyone informs on everyone else or they just try to keep their head down, both approaches stifling education.
And the list of what’s not allowed or what’s racist or sexist or intolerant or “hateful” grows by the minute. The list here is simply an illustrative not an exhaustive list. But does any of this really help anyone?
Meanwhile, legitimate, needed discussions about racism, male-female relationships, gender issues, environmental concerns, election integrity, immigration policy go wanting.
Is this the kind of country re really want?
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